Santanillas

The Santanillas, also known as the Swan Islands, Islas Santanilla, or the Islas del Cisne, is a chain of three islands in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, located 95 miles off the coast of Honduras. The islands were once home to a United States animal quarantine section for the importation of beef from South America, and the US Navy and other government agencies had personnel on the islands until the US dropped its claim to the guano-rich islands in 1972. Control of the islands was returned to Honduras, and the islands had a population of 10 people in 2014.